why he took action and essentially clearly defined the mission as libyan statetician shows images of mo maqaddafi being surrounded by reporters. there s a question of how far mr. obama is willing to go to remove him from power. another question to answer is how long the operation might take and what might be an acceptable outcome. secretary of state clint oh says there are no perfect options in libya. if we were sitting here and benghazi had been taken and tens of thousands of people had been slaughtered and hundreds of thousands had fled over the border, destabilizing egypt during this delicate transition, we in the congress and elsewhere would be sitting here saying, why didn t we do something. reporter: the president is expected to say to the american people that because of the action taken in libya, a catastrophe has been averted. martha. martha: mike emanuel, thank you very much. obviously a very busy day at
this is benghazi, the rebel strong hold city, where just a week ago, the tanks of omar mo maqaddafi were firing rounds into apartment buildings, there were casualties, it looked as if the city was about to fall, he was going to take his country back from the rebels. now that is not the case. earlier today this square was filled with between five and 6000, maybe more, who went from friday prayer to a vehement antiqaddafi rally, jon. that s why i hear there is word of some peace negotiations, and some negotiations for a ceasefire, but i don t know how you could simply have a negotiated settlement to this conflict with qaddafi staying in power, jon. jon: yeah, i guess that is a demand the protestors saying they would consider a truce, it looks like maybe you re not able to hear me, jeraldo. what i was going to say